House of the Day: 100 Sixth Avenue
While some of the interior stylings are a little precious for our tastes (how about a little color?), there’s no arguing with the quality of the house itself at 100 Sixth Avenue in Park Slope. The owner’s triplex has five bedrooms and as many fireplaces. The garden apartment also looks particularly nice. Still, with a…
While some of the interior stylings are a little precious for our tastes (how about a little color?), there’s no arguing with the quality of the house itself at 100 Sixth Avenue in Park Slope. The owner’s triplex has five bedrooms and as many fireplaces. The garden apartment also looks particularly nice. Still, with a price tag of $2,950,000 for a house on Sixth Avenue, you’d expect perfection. Think they’ll get their price?
100 6th Avenue [Douglas Elliman] GMAP P*Shark
I hope it’s not racist to also point out that a school that is 59% black and 34% hispanic is not “diverse.”
its not about race to me – but the co-incidence of never-married single parent households, usually with low income – which study after study has detailed the issues.
who will your kids be friends with? because they are usually more influenced by them than their parents.
“diversity” is not all equal. you have to drill down behind the numbers to find out what is going on. Kids coming from Bed Stuy are *not* the same ones coming from Mount Airy (in philly).
etcetera
Rich parents can afford to send their kids to public schools ,because they have nothing to lose in the education dept. Junior can graduate high school by the skin of his teeth. Be dumb as a rock and still have all the money he needs to live just as large as he grew up at Harvard or Yale.When you’re rich you don’t have to be smart or have the common sense God gave a squirrel.
The world is your oyster!
I love Sixth Avenue. Beautiful trees, beautiful homes, so peaceful, so centrally located. Lovely home. Priced a little high, but not very much.
Also, a mea culpa. I shouldn’t have said “no good public school option” in my original post. I should have said, “a public school option that is thought to impact property marketability”.
By 11217 on October 4, 2010 3:22 PM
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Thanks for the data point, it will be helpful for newbies or infrequent visitors.
Anyone who comes around here on a semi-frequent basis knew it was b.s. without looking anything up. The whole 50% off peak is looking dumber by the day, so now he’s trying to prop up the peak since his trough won’t go past 20% using actually confirmed numbers.
Don’t agree with some of these generalizations.
“white upper middle class parents talk about PS 282”
FYI, here was our into to PS282. We were about to bid on a place zoned for 282. And we were also committed to public schools, partly for diversity. And the broker (who was African-American!!!) for the *seller told us that she would never send her own kids to 282. So if we didn’t already have a spot at a private school, she said we should rent a place in the 321 district for enrollment purposes!
So I wouldn’t make it a black/white thing. There’s a lot of negativity out there re 282. Whether it’s justified, I really can’t say, and you won’t find a consensus on how to interpret the official scorecards and metrics. Brokers will tell you it’s an issue, and that’s generally your introduction to the issue if you’re new to the area.
“If you’ve got that kind of money, you’re sending the kids to private”
It’s not just “money.” There aren’t that many private schools and it’s not always possible to get a spot. Plus, there are people out there who can pay private but think public performs a valuable social function, and may also want a return on tax dollars.
The South Elliot Place listing has the “Full Screen Photos”
I find the appearance of their site off-putting, plus you have to register with them to look at non-PDE properties, plus it just takes forever to load sometimes. And this whole VOW bit isn’t anything that you can’t already get from any other REBNY-member agent – so Corcoran, Halstead, BHS, etc., all have access to the same listings, they just don’t post them to their site. It might be easier in terms of looking at all the listings out there, but you are by no means obligated to go through PDE to see them in person. The new site may actually have launched after Jerry’s listing was HOTD (it’s now in contract BTW); here is the lisitng on their new site: http://www.elliman.com/listing/for-sale/brooklyn/fort-greene/51-south-elliott-place/mbqlqkc Not too many differences from what I can see.